by Martin Rødvand on May 16, 2009
Mad Dog Hot Sauce (photo by Martin Rødvand)
I recently bought, together with my flat mate, various hot sauces from the website Chilliworld and yesterday we received the goods. We did the ordering after a night out and the confirmation email was less then satisfactory (didn’t even mention the website or chili at all) so we were anxious to see what we really ordered.
We had ordered three sauces and one type of powder; All with different ratings on the Scoville scale. One of the sauces (it’s the one in the crappy photo and the title of this post) impressed us with its warning label. I especially like number four and five.
As printed on the bottle:
“I agree, as indicated by my opening of this bottle, as follows in connection with my purchase of this product:
1. This product is extremely hot. You should use it with extreme care.
2. This product is to be used at my own risk, and I fully understand the potential danger if used or handled improperly.
3. If I give this product as a gift, I will make recipient fully aware of the potential danger if used or handled improperly.
4. I here by disclaim, release and relinquish any and all claims, actions and lawsuits that I, or any of my dependents, heirs, family members or legal representation, may have against any party relating to any damage or injury that results, or is alleged to have resulted, from the use, consumption, ingestion, contact or other use of or from the product.
5. I am not inebriated or otherwise not of a sound mind, and I am fully able to make a sound decision about the purchase of this product.”
They really covered their asses on this one.
by Martin Rødvand on May 13, 2009
HTC Dream Android Phone (photo by Kenn Wilson, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
I recently bought myself an Android Developer phone and when the Cupcake announcement came I was thrilled. New features and an improved phone. However, I had trouble finding any information with regards to updating the developer phone. It seems the regular phones are updated by their carrier.
Let’s get to it.
Be sure to have installed the most recent SDK as this provides some tools for you to interact with the phone. You can find the most recent one here.
You can always check that your device is connected with the command adb devices in the terminal. The first time it’ll have to start the daemon and may take a moment before listing your device. Be patient.
There’s two ways to updating your Android Dev phone. You can flash the device using a recovery image or flash it using fastboot commands. I will describe the use of recovery image.
Now, with the device connected we’re ready to update our phone. Pop over to HTC and download the Radio Image and Recovery Image. Be sure to keep them like they are being downloaded. Safari unpacked them for me and they wouldn’t verify.
Be sure you have your SD card in the phone as we should now push the radio image over to it. Use the command adb push .zip /sdcard/update.zip. This will transfer the image over to the update.zip on the phone. You should receive a message in the terminal saying it’s all transferred. Use adb shell sync to make sure.
Now with the file on the SD card we have to reboot it. Turn the phone on while pressing the Home-key. This will turn it into recovery mode and you should see a triangle with an exclamation mark. When you get to this screen slide open your keyboard and press Alt+L. This will turn on the recovery log and you should see a few options. Choose Alt+S and the install of the radio image should start. After the image has been installed reboot the phone by pressing Home and Back. An image representing our flashing shows before the phone reboots.
For the recovery image the same procedure applies.
After installing this image you will first get the old green Android logo before the shiny new one appears. The first time after the update it may take a while to power on.
You can find all this information and more on the HTC Support site.
